This year's fall Intel Developer Forum came to a close last week and we're
here today to tie up some loose ends and conclude our coverage of the conference.
There are many ways to measure the success of the show; attendance was relatively
unchanged from the Spring show which is a good thing considering the current
state of the industry.

In terms of how exciting the show was, compared to last Spring there were definitely
fewer announcements of interest; for example, here's some of what we saw just
6 months ago at IDF:

As usual, the Technology Showcase held some surprises but we definitely had
hoped for more information on forthcoming products from Intel (a few Prescott
tidbits would've helped seeing as how the chip will be sampling by the end of
this year but it may be silence that's Intel's weapon against Hammer).

Considering that the two major products talked about at this IDF were Banias
and the HT-enabled Pentium 4 you'd expect us to devote the most of our time
to covering those two. We've already talked Banias to death in our earlier coverage,
so today we'll talk a lot about Hyper-Threading and what it will mean for your
desktop experience.